Mar 22, 2024

I was actually coasting through work very easily. My morning was pretty chill, until a support request came in and I had to take care of it. I was essentially directed to a PHP project for a seemingly-old system, written in Laravel.

At this point, I genuinely hate the tasks I'm given. They're all either PHP or WordPress, what's worse is that I only have experience in WordPress. I literally looked for another job because I stagnated on those tasks. I wanted DevOps then, and I've transitioned into a DevOps engineer role now. I really dislike that I'm given the brainrot equivalent of work tasks on a daily basis. But whatever, I grit my teeth and do a big find & replace for this PHP task. It only was fixed at the end of the day by implementing the most basic solution after it seemed like I was stuck in a mire.

I couldn't wait for work to be over and focusing on this task really burned me out. I genuinely hate these types of tasks, I'm glad I don't have to tell future recruiters about this or they'll laugh me out of interviews.

Come evening, I was just learning and studying for my AWS Cloud Practitioner exam, an exam that directly correlates with DevOps and the cloud. Actual topics that I care about and where my future career path is headed. I was supposed to pull an all-nighter, but I made the mistake of talking to people on other apps instead of studying. It got kinda bad and I seemingly wasted my time. I tried to treat myself to some food to keep myself going and to study again, but I wasn't feeling it and called it a night.

I still had fun regardless. I had total control of my time, too bad I could've used it for better. Maybe next time.